What is Digital Storytelling?

Digital Storytelling is the process of writing about a story and adding the multimedia elements of voice, images and music to create a visual story.

Why use Digital Storytelling?

We use Digital Storytelling because...

it develops visual and multimedia literacy for students.
it develops application of digital media to represent a message or story.
it provides students with a voice by enlarging their boundaries of whom they can communicate.
it increases their power of communication.
it permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it, and extend it.
it allows students to write more effectively by permititng them to visualize their writings.
it gives students an opportunity to explore elements of technology and information literacy while learning the ethical use of materials as per copyright and fair use.
it provides an opportunity for differentiated instruction, allowing students to create as per their ability.